Daniel Holbach brings us a series of blog posts from Ubuntu developerweek where anyone interested had the opportunity to learn aboutdeveloping on Ubuntu, as well as Quickly, app development, and muchmore.

Laura Czajkowski writes about how there should be more images on LoCoteam portals. Czajkowski states: "It would be really good to see morephotos there as I think a photo is worth a thousand words and reallyconveys the energy that locoteams bring!"

=== September 8th Ubuntu Global Jam at the Wikimedia Foundation in SanFrancisco ===

Elizabeth Krumbach writes about Ubuntu Global Jam, which she will behosting at the Wikimedia Foundation on September 8th in San Francisco,California. Krumbach points out that the focus of this year's UbuntuGlobal Jam will be on ISO testing. Anyone interested in attendingUbuntu Global Jam can RSVP at the following link:http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/1918/detail/

"LoCo Council is being faced with replacing of two of their currentmembers." Therefore, Chris Crisafulli is sending an e-mail where hecalls for "volunteers to step forward and nominate themselves oranother contributor for the two open positions." Crisafulli alsoprovides details regarding the current LoCo Council.

Curtis Hovey informs us that "Launchpad's bug and branch privacyfeatures are being replaced by information sharing that permitsproject maintainers to share kinds of information with people at theproject level." Maintainers can also unshare information with peoplewho leave the project. "No one needs to manage bug and branchsubscriptions to ensure trusted users have access to confidentialinformation." Everything can be managed with the usage of APIscripts.

Jorge Castro shares information about Marco Ceppi's finished andimproved WordPress Charm along with instructions on how to set up theenvironment for WordPress deployment. Castro also invites andchallenges people to optimize WordPress.

Barneedhar reports on the generally favorable feedback for Ask Ubuntu,suggesting that it has become a helpful resource for the public. Alist of the top five contributors with the most reputation points inAugust, and a special thanks to msPeachy for her site edits is alsoincluded.

Following Ubuntu Developer Week, Daniel Holbach shares furtherinstructions for everyone who wants to learn more about Ubuntudevelopment. Holbach includes details about the Packaging Guide andthe Bug Fix Initiative page and invites questions and participation in#ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net, and to the ubuntu-motu mailing list.

John Pugh shares his experience with Unite - Unity's developerconference, which was held in Amsterdam (21st-24th of August). Pughstarts with game development "which raised the bar for Unitydevelopment" and finishes the article with "Unity's newpublish-to-Linux feature."

Roberta Nilerud informs us that "in June Mozilla Thunderbird added theFilelink feature" to address the problems associated with attachinglarge files to emails, and Ubuntu One can now be used to host files.From this point forward, people will be able to download contentdirectly from Ubuntu One.

=== PC-in-a-Keyboard Comes with Ubuntu Linux Preloaded ===A new PC-in-a-Keyboard, the Diablotek U310 by Liliputing comespre-loaded with Ubuntu 12.04 for just $239. Hardware includes an IntelAtom D525 1.8ghz processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 500GB harddrive.

Klint Finely of WIRED magazine writes about how the Linux desktopstruggles to keep up with Apple's OS X. Finely points out the thoughtsof Miguel de Icaza regarding the failure of the Linux desktop: "Thereal reason Linux lost is that developers started defecting to OS Xbecause the developers behind the toolkits used to build graphicalLinux applications didn't do a good enough job ensuring backwardcompatibility between different versions of their APIs. For manyyears, we broke people's code. OS X did a much better job of ensuringbackward compatibility."

Steven Vaugn of ZDNet talks about Thomas Bushnell's unveiling ofGoobuntu, Google's in-house edition of Ubuntu. Points of interestinclude a lack of an official desktop environment, Google is aCanonical Ubuntu Advantage customer, confirmed by Chris Kenyon, thoughhe noted that "Google is not our largest business desktop customer."

A new flavor of Ubuntu is coming this fall with GNOME 3 at its core. Adomain name and basic website have been set up at gnomebuntu.org,though details, including its eventual name, remain elusive due totrademark restrictions.

Ubuntu 12.10 will include a new Photo Lens, allowing users to search,filter, and view photos via a new, separate lens. Photo Lens can pullphotos locally from Shotwell as well as from online accounts includingFlickr and Facebook.

Stephen Fry talks about using Ubuntu because "it seems thefriendliest" in a pre-recorded interview for OggCamp 12. He also talksabout his journey with computers, which started with a BBC Micro andwhy he believes Linux has been slow to gain market share.

Armando Roggio of Practicalcommerce has produced a short, three partintroduction to Unity focusing on Unity's desktop, Unity's panel, andUnity's launcher. Roggio concludes that "Ubuntu's Unity desktopenvironment is by no means identical to Windows or OS X, but it isfamiliar enough that almost anyone will soon be able to use it."

Michael Larabel of Phoronix shares information from the Ubuntu-devellist regarding the decrease of Ubuntu alternate CDs. Larabel statesthat "Canonical wants to drop the number of ISOs they produce and ship-- in order to reduce their support/QA burden and also for lighteningup the mirror/FTP servers."

Datamation's Matt Hartley gives us his personal list of applications,which "quite honestly, leave a lot to be desired." Included in thelist are Firefox's extension manager, Cheese, Miro, Epiphany, GnomeNanny, and more.

Mihaita Bamburic of BetaNews reviews his own history with Linux,starting with his failure to embrace Red Hat, and his rediscovery ofLinux with Ubuntu. Bamburic writes that Ubuntu is "easy to install,easy to use, light on resources, and able to cover basic functionalityall without sacrificing its good looks" and that "Windows 8 lookssomehow less inspiring."

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